July 2011
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Ponder Du Jour: eBooks
My problems with eBooks:
I can’t smell the pages and ink.
My future house will be missing bookshelves.
I miss finding quiet secluded reading corners on the floor in bookstores.
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What I learnt today
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I learnt almost all the fundamentals of wastewater coagulation and flocculation. I read for 3 solid hours, highlighted important theories, and took notes - everything from the zeta potential to when one should dose cationic polyelectrolytes.
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Throughout history, nobody believed the Earth was flat. That idea came from 1828 in a semi-fictional book: The Life And Voyages Of...
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Diamond-Water Paradox
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“The British government wanted to decrease the population of venomous cobra snakes, so they offered a reward for every dead snake. However, the Indians began to breed cobras for the income. When the government realized what was going on, the reward was canceled, and the breeders set the snakes free. The snakes consequently multiplied, and increased...
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Ponder Du Jour: Professions
As I promised, I shall share with you a few places where my mind has gone galavanting recently.
First on the itinerary is another disheartening personal perspective of environmental engineering. Frankly, the idea of a nine-to-five full-time consulting managerial job with a two-hour daily commute in and out of suburbia destroys me a little bit inside every time I think about it. Inevitable as...
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Norway attacks: ‘I played dead to stay alive’
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“We are a small country, but a very proud one. Nobody can bomb us to be quiet....”
– Jens Stoltenberg (Prime Minister of Norway)
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What I learnt today
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Another environmental crisis:
According to the US Geological Survey, the world has 65 billion tons of known phosphate reserves, but only 16 billion tons that are economically viable to mine. Almost 80 percent are found in Western Sahara and Morocco. Academic researcher, Dana Cordell, of the Global Phosphorus Research Initiative, has predicted that we could reach “peak...
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What's the point of a beach body if you don't go...
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You know your summers are underwhelming when...
… you wear your dark-wash fitted party jeans to the office.
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The Engineering Endeavours
Why am I in engineering? Well, what is environmental engineering? That question seems to have brought itself to my attention quite often these days - it disrupts my relaxing morning breakfast cereal routine, it crosses my mind as I wait for my prints by the printer, and I even dwell upon it in front of the urinal.
I will have finished my sixth and final internship this summer for a total of two...
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You know your summers are underwhelming when...
… you dance to Party Rock Anthem in the basement of your home instead of a club.
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Mondays
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WatchOver 200 photos in 30 seconds of Torontonian passers-by at the Live Green Festival at Dundas Square
Soundtrack: Take California by Propellerheads
July 16, 2011
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Ponder Du Jour
Coming soon.
(A new name for a previous theme where I simply list my random musings of the day or of the week. I was really nurturing and developing this theme throughout February and March when I had plenty of solo spacing-out and ‘me’ time. I enjoyed the creative thinking process, so it’s time to bring it back!)
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What I learnt today
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Calcium Carbonate Precipitation Potential (CCPP) is highly sensitive in the low pH ranges for treated influent water that is low in alkalinity.
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My name in classical Latin: FLAVIVS IVSTINVS AVGVSTVS
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I figured out how to set manual white balance on my Nikon, finally. It’s an annoying process but I can see its merits for candle-lit portrait shots.
Perception...
This weekend I was invited to a delightful backyard birthday party, and reconnected with an old friend over teppanyaki and beer.
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I spent most of Saturday afternoon scrambling to find a thoughtful gift for the birthday girl. I pedaled store to store looking for crafty knickknacks, witty cards, and jewelry designed by indie artists. I bought a bottle of wine as a backup present just in...
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Dundas Square, Toronto
July 10, 2011
(Some tourists asked what I was doing and I said I was taking panoramic shots. So, the two of the them joined in, and then there were the three of us spinning around like dorks taking pictures in the middle of Dundas Square).
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“Just in time to party.
Justin, time to party.”
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Fashion of the Mind
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Engineered Graphite Oxide Materials for Application in Water Purification
Read the non-technical and technical articles.
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Do not stir in protein whey into coffee. It does not mix, and it looks and smells like regurgitated roadkill.
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Excel Pivot Tables.
It was almost as exciting as the day I learnt how to use GoalSeek! I’m still an Excel noob after all.
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“I only drink on two occasions - when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.”
– Brendan Francis Behan
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“My concept of excitement from purchasing electronics have shifted away from...”
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The Carefree Canadians
I was in Ottawa this weekend for the first time to celebrate Canada day!
A good friend of mine picked me up at my office on Thursday for the five hour drive up to the capital city. We arrived there past midnight at a friend’s house where we spent the night before heading out for the lakeside cottage the next morning.
The cottage was actually tucked away within Gatineau Park in across the...
